Definizione

• A nickname given to a counter- stamped sou of Guadeloupe. In October, 1766, Louis XV signed an edict ordering the minting of copper pieces of the value of one sou for the use of the American Colonies. These pieces were struck in 1767, and probably did not reach Guade- loupe until the following year, but they were not put in circulation.

  In 1793 George Henri Victor Collot was the governor of the island and on October 2 he issued an order for the release of these pieces, the latter to be counter- stamped R.F. before being put in circula- tion. These coins brought into the treas- ury an amount of 50,000 livres, and re- lieved the scarcity of the Sou Marques and the small silver. They were popularly known as Collots, after the Governor.

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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